<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear Caroline, Robert</p>
<p> and all</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wow ! When the FAZ, the very conservative business newspaper tackles the US, there might be some very serious reasons ! <br />Actually, there are a lot. I can't but fully agree to Evgeny Morozow's opinion. <br /><br />I found another very cutting argument in his article :</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<div id="message" class="mail-content-read" style="width: 991px;">
<h2><The public-private partnership of American infrastructure</h2>
<p><Third, the sense of unconditional victory that civil society in both Europe and America felt over the defeat of the Total Information Awareness program – a much earlier effort to e<stablish comprehensive surveillance – was premature. The problem with Total Information Awareness was that it was too big, too flashy, too dependent on government <bureaucracy. What we got instead, a decade later, is a much nimbler, leaner, more decentralized system, run by the private sector and enabled by a social contract between <Silicon Valley and Washington: while Silicon Valley runs, updates and monetizes the digital infrastructure, the NSA can tap IT on demand. Everyone specializes and everyone <wins.</p>
<p><This is today’s America in full splendor: what cannot be accomplished through controversial legislation will be accomplished through privatization, only with far less oversight <and public control. From privately-run healthcare providers to privately-run prisons to privately-run militias dispatched to war zones, this is the public-private partnership model <on which much of American infrastructure operates these days. Communications is no exception. Decentralization is liberating only if there’s no powerful actor that can rip off <the benefits after the network has been put in place. If such an actor exists – like NSA in this case – decentralization is a mere shibboleth. Those in power get more of what <they want quicker – and pay less for the privilege.</p>
</div>
<p><br /><br />Good one, Mr Morozov ! I submit this article to the particular attention of the WSIS process leaders, Unesco, UNDP and -with a special emphasis- the ITU, for whom PPP is the "Holy Grail" and the final solution for all ICT4D issues !</p>
<p>Best</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Jean-Louis Fullsack</p>
<p>CESIR<br /><br /></p>
<blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left: #ff0000 2px solid;">> Message du 24/07/13 22:29<br />> De : "Norbert Bollow" <br />> A : governance@lists.igcaucus.org<br />> Copie à : <br />> Objet : Re: [governance] : The Price of Hypocrisy - Evgeny Morozov on Information Consumerism - Überwachung - FAZ<br />> <br />> Carolina wrote:<br />> <br />> > Great article. His point of close relationships is really<br />> > interesting. <br />> > <br />> > > http://m.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/ueberwachung/information-consumerism-the-price-of-hypocrisy-12292374.html<br />> <br />> Strongly agreed.<br />> <br />> What are the policy alternatives to simply doing nothing about the<br />> “information consumerism” concerns?<br />> <br />> Greetings,<br />> Norbert<br />> <br />> -- <br />> Recommendations for effective and constructive participation in IGC:<br />> 1. Respond to the content of assertions and arguments, not to the person<br />> 2. Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept<br />> <br />> ____________________________________________________________<br />> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br />> governance@lists.igcaucus.org<br />> To be removed from the list, visit:<br />> http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing<br />> <br />> For all other list information and functions, see:<br />> http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance<br />> To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:<br />> http://www.igcaucus.org/<br />> <br />> Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t<br />></blockquote>